I am very keen to learn more about economics. My knowledge of economics is very much an analyst’s, rather than an economists. I do have so text books I am slowly reading through. I then decided to supplement that with some blogs that would expose me to more ideas. These are what I found.

My knowledge of economics is fairly easy to describe, because it comes largely from formal education. An MBA gave me a superficial introduction to economics. I also have degree in financial economics, which share common tools and approaches with macroeconomics and microeconomics, but has little common subject matter.

After a few years working as an equities analyst, I realised that real markets were a lot more complex than ones in MBA textbooks, and I decided I wanted to learn more microeconomics. So far, lack of times has stopped me doing very much, but the little extra reading I have done has been fascinating.

So, on to the blogs I found interesting. Inevitably, a lot of them have a political element, and many are even broader. They are no substitute for proper reading up on economics, but they are interesting reading.

The most wide ranging within economics is Economist’s View. It reports a lot of good quality comment from multiple sources, with additional comment by economist Mark Thoma. This is a must-read. A British alternative (I read both) is New Economist.

Brad De Long also mixes economics and politics, although he does offer an economics only RSS feed for those who only want the economics. If you just want the economics, well presented, try Greg Mankiw’s blog.

For British readers, David Smith’s Economics UK offers reasonable reporting of the news, but I did not find anything really insightful there, and the site design (and readability) is very poor.

For those interested in emerging markets the World Bank’s PSD Blog has a lot of material. The viewpoint is less restricted than you might assume, and I have found a lot of interesting links to other websites there.

Against Monopoly is a campaigning website that covers a single issue, but it covers it well. As this is one of issues that interested me in economics, it certainly earned its place in Akregator for me.

Finally three blogs that I am reading for now, but which I do not like as much as the others: Mediocracy (by Fabian Tassano, an ironic name for someone so fervently in favour of free markets), Marginal Revolution, Nouriel Roubini’s blog (More bad design. Can you find the RSS feed? Your web browser will not pick it up automatically.) and Eric Rasmusen’s blog.